Software Engineer / Analytics Engineer New
Company: Sixth Street
Location: Austin, TX
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-03-17
About this role
The Role
This is a full-time in office (hybrid) role based in our Austin, Dallas or New York offices. This position is part of Sixth Street's growing data analytics team. You will play a pivotal role in how we story-tell with our data—transforming complex information into compelling, actionable insights. We have built, and will continue to build, custom analytics solutions, giving you room for creativity in how data is displayed, visualized, and consumed across the organization.
This role requires versatility. While your primary focus will be analytics engineering, you will occasionally wear multiple hats: the data engineering hat when building data pipelines to bring in data needed for dashboards, the software engineering hat to ensure dashboard components are reusable across the company by contributing to our internal libraries, and the infrastructure hat to maintain impeccable CI/CD processes and ensure our stacks are optimized for scalability and performance.
About our Product and Stack
- We are building custom analytics solutions to provide data-driven insights and enable storytelling with data across the firm
- We are heavily Python / AWS centric, leaning on containerized services and service-oriented-architecture
- We utilize S3 and Snowflake for our date lake and operational data store solutions
- We use Airflow for workflow orchestration
- We use Github Actions for CI/CD
- We use Cloudformation and CDK for Infrastructure as Code
Core Responsibilities
- Work within an agile team, designing and developing analytics solutions, dashboards, and data visualizations
- Collaborate closely with the product team to understand requirements and translate them into impactful data presentations
- Full ownership of analytics components and services from design to post-production monitoring
- Design and develop high-impact data presentations tailored for executive leadership, ensuring a high bar for UX, visual polish, and narrative clarity.
- Build and ma...